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Are the nurse bees in danger?

I need to add a frame with newly laid eggs from one hive into one that does not have a queen. From what I've read on here, you need to add the nurse bees also. My question is, the one hive won't harm the nurse bees if they've come from another hive? Thank you to everyone on here who responds to all of us new beekeepers with lots of questions. Everyone is so helpful with all there information. It nice to know that the experienced beekeepers are willing to help all of us out. Thanks again

Re: Are the nurse bees in danger?

You can go either way. With the nurse bees attached...or without. I've done it either way and it works great. If I give it with the nurse bees, I take the frame out, give it a small puff of smoke...very little smoke...and set the frame on the side of the original hive for a few minutes...if the temperatures are allowing it.
Any worker bee, or most of them would take flight, and you're left with majority of nurse bees on the frame. Now, you can take the frame, with the nurse bees and give it to the hive in need.
Good luck!

Re: Are the nurse bees in danger?

I have done this almost all the time. Just take a frame with nurse bees and eggs to put in your queen less hive.
They will make you some queens hopefully. Usually they will make 3-8 depending on how many they want to make.
The nurse bees the new hive will accept readily while some of the foragers still on the frame will fly back to their original hive.
Do this in the afternoon so majority of the foragers are out in the field leaving you more nurse bees on the frame.
Some returning foragers are o.k. to add to the new hive. It would help if you use the natural foundation instead of the
plastic foundation. Because later on when the queen cells mature you can cut them to put into nucs to avoid the virgin
queen killing off the unhatched queens still inside their cells.
If you accidentally moved the original queen on the frame to your new hive that is queen less then your original hive
will make some queens instead of the new hive. Of course your original hive must have some eggs and young
larvae also. Either way we try to find the strongest hive possible to make you some good big queens.